Mobile Phone Radiation Harms DNA, New Study Finds

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Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday. The so-called Reflex study, conducted by 12 research groups in seven European countries, did not prove that mobile phones are a risk to health but concluded that more research is needed to see if effects can also be found outside a lab.

The $100 billion a year mobile phone industry asserts that there is no conclusive evidence of harmful effects as a result of electromagnetic radiation. About 650 million mobile phones are expected to be sold to consumers this year, and over 1.5 billion people around the world use one. The research project, which took four years and which was coordinated by the German research group Verum, studied the effect of radiation on human and animal cells in a laboratory.

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[KingCobra]

My $.02

For many years people knew that cigrattes would hurt your health and maybe cause cancer, but people that wanted them didn't care then and still don't care.

Even if they find some bad side effects caused by mobile phone radiation, which I assume most of us know they will find, people don't really care. Most of us use the smaller handheld phones and all of the newer phone emit less radiation. I think this money being used for research could be used for a better cause.